Show N INE PLOWS L UN TR Of O TW CbS CARS S ON TWO INJURED In a L disastrous wreck on the western division of the Denver Rio Grande Graude Herbert W. W V. V Fletcher r an engineer was wa-s instantly killed Ernest Frederickson a fireman was cut and bruised about the head hoad and body and J. J Jenkins a brakeman brake brake- man mart sustained the breaking of oC a legand log leg and was otherwise injured S The accident happened near Thistle I about 5 fj oI o'clock lock yester yesterday a morning and was as caused b b by ba a 1 rear c end collision between be be- tween two fr freight trains train Fletcher wits liS in iii in charge of xi 1 section of ot the train aud aUll was gOl going pome J down own grade For som omo om unexplained reason ho was WI I I J his lila train at u IL speed Car far in exI ex- ex I cots of lIC of that called for II by tho the rules at atI I that section of the road Ho lIu evidently I did dil not notice that the train was i on the tho main track truck until his bis train was vue nearl nearly upon it lIe He then thon jumped from froni his hiM cab striking tho the frozen ground on I his h 1 d Death was almost either cither jumped or was I thrown from tho thu cab The brakeman jumped when ho realized the dangerS danger S ahead l. S The great engine smashed into tho the thoI caboose of tho train ahead which was empty an and tore it its va way through h thirteen thirteen thir thir- I teen caw cars loaded wit with wills It coal coal before it toppled over on it its side siele and rolled into the tho Spanish Fork ork ri er rier The lluc side sirle of the tho cab which had bad I been occupied by i Fletcher l a 1 moment before was torn toru i awn away as though h it had been sawed off I It is claimed that the conductor of i the first lint train saw the tho other train coming corning com com- I ing find and ran back hack to warn Fletcher of I the dan danger cr At tho san same o time his his' bead brakeman called out a warning Whether Fletcher heard either of these warnings s will probably never neer be known lIe He did not si signal nal that ho he heard beard either of them As quickly as ns possible after tho the coT col a special was made mado up and the I dea dead ah injured brou brought hl to this citA city cit A br large io force of men was vas rushed to ta the tho scene and the work of clearing the track b began an This work was not fin tin until this morning Fletcher was as 33 years rears old ann and had been an engineer n with tho the Rio Grande for several years cars Ho Ito was WM married and with his Ms w wife fo and two to small children liv lived d at West Fifth Filth South street The fatal accident nt happened d on what was to have havo been Cn Fletchers Fletcher's last trip but ono one for thirty days davs He lIc had bad secured a is A leave lea of absence and ana was to have bavo left with his wife and children January 11 for a visit with his parents parent in Ohio whom he had not riot seen for lor twenty h years The hoil body bed bedwas was taken to Evans Evans' under taking establishment where it will be he heM held pending the arrangements for the funeral which wInch lilah will be bt under nailer the I ot t the he Elks Elks' f lodge of which w he be was a member |